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Socialist Night School: Organizing Against CBP and ICE: ICE Watch/Film the Police/Know Your Rights

Tonight at Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St.

Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are staging this week for two months of terror in New Orleans. In LA, Chicago, and Charlotte, we’ve seen aggressive abductions at schools, stores, workplaces, churches, and in residential neighborhoods. And we’ve seen these communities answer the call to protect their own. How can local socialist organizers respond in this critical moment?

We’re continuing our Friday Night School series with an ICE Watch/Film the Police/Know Your Rights training in Broadmoor. Come link up with people from your own neighborhood and learn how to organize, help your neighbors, and build the community and the structures that will make us unconquerable to fascism.

Organizing is about trust. Courage is a muscle. We keep us safe. See you all tonight.

Red Rabbits Recommendation: It’s Mutual Aid Season!

As we cross the Thanksgiving threshold, we enter into the time of the year when Americans tend to think a little more about others than usual. Technically, it’s mutual aid season all year round, but there’s no need to give people a hard time when we have bigger fish to fry. These next few weeks will be extremely perilous to some of our neighbors as they try to live their lives under ICE predation, and we all need to think about how we can help them in any way we can.

Things you can do to help our neighbors include making grocery, food pantry, or medication runs, fundraising for legal services and lost wages, helping with school drop-offs and pick-ups, or helping street vendors by buying out their goods or helping them sell them. There are other ways to help out, so be creative and talk to your comrades and neighbors. If you don’t know someone directly affected by the ICE invasion, keep asking around. You know more people than you think you do, and keep in mind that some folks might not feel comfortable asking for help. Helping a friend of a friend is a great way to make new friends.

Don’t roll in dead-set with a solution in mind. There are often aspects that you haven’t thought of, and getting the information from the person who needs the help will usually lead to a better solution. As organizers, we’re supposed to listen more than we speak. Take that to heart and find out how you can plug in where help is needed. As our good friend Rabindranath Tagore reminds us: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

Bulletins

7th Ward Triangle Food Distribution with Fork and Knife Club

This Sunday, we’ll be teaming up with DSA member Tenaj W and the 7th Ward Triangle to distribute hot meals and groceries at 1206 Touro St. You can join us to distribute meals or deliver groceries to the elderly. Sign up to volunteer.

Winter Coat Drive for Next Brake Light Clinic

We’ll be handing out winter coats at our December 13 Brake Light Clinic. If you’re able to donate winter clothing, please bring it by the office, Healing Center #258. Get in touch with the Direct Service & Health Justice Committee to learn more and help out. Volunteer here.

Poli-Ed Reading Series

The Reading Group meets every third Sunday, from 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm, at the Healing Center #258. Our current reading series focuses on Palestine. See you at the next meeting!

December 21
No Other Land by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor
The Dig: Thawra hosted by Daniel Denvir

January 18
The Gender of Fossil Fuels by Shira Pinhas
Spatial and Temporal Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment in West Bank, Palestine by Sandy Alawna & Xavier Garcia
Gas & Oil in Palestine by Marketline (copies available at the office)

February 15
Arab-Israeli Eco-Normalization by Manal Shqair
Poetry Share Out

Join Up With Your Neighborhood Circle

Neighborhood circles connect us to comrades where we live, work, or otherwise spend time. Use your circle to host gatherings, plan events, and organize around issues in your neighborhood. Click here to join yours today. Neighborhood circles follow the chapter’s code of conduct and guidelines for respectful discussion.

Sign the Petition to Say No to Angola’s Camp J for ICE Detention

Governor Landry re-opened the Camp J area of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola as an ICE detention center. Known as “the dungeon,” Camp J is a site so brutal and inhumane that it was shut down due to its deplorable conditions. This is part of Landry and Trump’s broader, deeply racist, and anti-immigrant agenda. They want to further criminalize, cage, and dehumanize Black, Brown, and immigrant communities in order to enrich their donors and hold on to power. Sign the petition to shut it down at bit.ly/NO-ANGOLA.

Write Like a Socialist: We Have a World to Win!

Have an update from your committee or working group? That’s a Bulletin! Want to tell us about an upcoming event? Add it to the Community Calendar! Got some opinion or analysis to share for the good of the membership? Write us a Feature! Make your contribution to the next edition of Solidarity Means Action from the link on Discord.

Community Calendar

Friday, November 28

Queer Soc Planning Meeting
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
bit.ly/queersoc

Socialist Night School: Organizing Against CBP & ICE: ICE Watch/Film the Police/Know Your Rights
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St – Meet

Saturday, November 29

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Sunday, November 30

7th Ward Triangle / Fork & Knife Club Food Distribution
Event 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Volunteers 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
1206 Touro St

DSA Neighborhood Social: Northshore!
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Tandem Coffee & Cocktails, 424 Girod St, Mandeville

Safety Coalition Training
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258

Chapter Orientation
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday)
Meet

Monday, December 1

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Tuesday, December 2

New Orleans Rank & File Project Monthly Meeting
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (first Tuesday)
REACH Center, 2022 St Bernard Av, Bldg C, 3rd Fl

Wednesday, December 3

DSA Electoral Debrief
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Meet

Thursday, December 4

Immigration Advocacy Working Group Meeting
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Discord

DSA Mid-City Neighborhood Social
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Parkview Tavern, 910 N Carrollton Av

Friday, December 5

Socialist Night School: Organizing Against CBP & ICE with Legal Advocates
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location TBA – Meet

Saturday, December 6

Labor Notes New Orleans Troublemakers School
9:30 am – 4:00 pm
IATSE Local 478, 511 N Hennessey St – Register

New Orleans Bookfair
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fred Hampton Free Store, 5523 St Claude

DSA Uptown Neighborhood Social & Holidays Party
7:00 pm
8722 Willow St

Sunday, December 7

Coffee with Comrades
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Coffee Science, 410 S Broad St

Poli-Ed Planning Meeting
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (first Sunday)
Healing Center, 2372 St Claude Av #258 – Meet

Chapter Orientation
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm (first and last Sunday)
Meet

Down the Road

December 9 Direct Service & Health Justice Meeting
December 10 Eye on Surveillance Meeting
December 13 Brake Light Clinic & Winter Coat Drive – Volunteer
December 15 New Orleans Community Organizing Fair Org Registration Deadline – Interest Form
December 20 New Orleans DSA General Meeting
January 11 New Orleans Community Organizing Fair – Interest Form